Joseph Lister

Have you ever seen a war fought without weapons. Well, the cold war was one of the wars that was fought without actual battle. Three main points way the cold war started was america wanted to stop communism, afraid of one another, and massive arms race. Those are the main points why the cold war started. Communism was the act of sharing things they owned with others. America was not agreeing to this, so they tried their best to stop it. America helped out greece during their depression.…

The Russian Communist Party from 1921 despite having no titular leader held Lenin up as the sole party head having emerged from the civil war as the controlling power of the Russian empire. Following Lenin’s death in 1924 a six year struggle for power followed, Lenin having left no real guidance as to who should succeed him as leader. Stalin’s rise to power, in 1924 was far from inevitable as he was one of six politburo members and had only been appointed as General Secretary, viewed by…

To a large extent, the secondary sources analysed approach the Cold War’s core themes differently. Though the fact that Seton-Watson (1966) and Spellman (2006) are separated by four decades must be accounted for. As a result, this essay shall focus on two contentious points. First, there is disagreement between the sources on the Cold War’s inevitability. Also, the sources assign responsibility for the Cold War to different parties. First, the sources differ significantly on Cold War’s…

Despite his infamy, Adolf Hitler is considered to be a brilliant military strategist for his execution of blitzkrieg; a military tactic which allowed him to conduct some of the most successful land invasions in human history. However, Hitler’s subsequent invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 (codenamed Operation Barbarossa), resulted in a massive and costly failure, leading to the eventual fall of the Third Reich. The decision to invade the Soviet Union was one of the most fateful and seminal…

Nikita Khrushchev emerged as the savior of the Soviet Union, portraying himself as all that Stalin was not. In a session at the Twentieth Party Congress of 1956, Khrushchev attacked Joseph Stalin’s persona and interests when he controlled the country. By lessening political control over workers, emphasizing agriculture, allowing artistic expression, and lessening the intensity of foreign policy, Khrushchev fulfilled his promises to…

In a day and age when we hear “Russia” and “fake news” in every other news cast, it is shocking that one of the worst cases of propaganda and fake news has yet to be totally publically accepted. Known as “Holodomor” the Ukrainian genocide continues to be one of Russian dirtiest, well kept secret. Starting in the late 20’s the with mass arrests and deportations, it culminated with a man-made famine from 1932-1933, it is believed that Stalin was able to kill between 7 to 14 million Ukrainian…

Luigi Boccherini. Born 1743 in Lucca, Italy, and died 1805 in Madrid, Spain. He lived for 62 years. His body was buried in Pontifical Basilica of St. Michael in Madrid, until 1927 when Mussolini had him dug up and moved his body to the church of St. Francesco in his native place, Lucca, Italy. Luigi’s bloodline still goes on to live in Spain this day. Boccherini’s father sent him at a young age to study in Rome(1757). He later went on to Madrid, and worked for the younger brother of Charles…

In 1953 Eisenhower brought a new approach to the U.S. National Security policy. One of the elements was maintaining the vitality of the U.S. economy at the time building sufficient strength to prosecute the Cold War. Another element was relying on nuclear weapons to deter Communist aggression with the possibility to fight a war. Eisenhower also used the Central Intelligence Agency to operator secret and covert actions against governments that were connected to the Soviet Union. Strengthening…

“ Iron Curtain” When Winston Churchill spoke of an iron curtain that was descending on Europe he suggested that while it was not a physical iron curtain dividing Europe,. He spoke metaphorically referencing Soviet domination in Eastern Europe and the obvious divide between Western and Eastern ideologies. Churchill coined the term “Iron Curtain” while giving a speech in Missouri. In 1947 Bernard Baruch created the term the “Cold War” is an attempt to describe post WWII relations between Western…

How did Europe become such a major power in the 1800s and 1900s when all it was was a group of various countries with diverse customs and languages? Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was in what historians call the “Scramble for Africa”. This is where European powers tried to divide and imperialize parts of Africa that they were rewarded because of their power and prestige. Certain parts of the imperialist, European African continent were tamer than others. Other sections were…